Council Workshop Committee

the Director of Planning and Building to close the City’s Official Plan Review process conducted under Section 26 of the Planning Act , and to open the process to prepare the City’s New Official Plan, conducted under Section 17 of the Planning Act ; and Confirm that the Municipal Comprehensive Review currently underway will remain ongoing with the New Official Plan process to consider employment land conversions, and is not to consider urban boundary and/or rural settlement area expansions; and Direct the Director of Planning and Building to refer all policy research, analysis, studies, staff reports and community feedback undertaken and received as part of the Official Plan Review be considered within the New Official Plan process; and Direct the City Clerk to forward the resolution of City Council, subject to endorsement of the recommendation to prepare a New Official Plan, to the Region of Halton, the Town of Milton, the Town of Oakville, the Town of Halton Hills and the City of Hamilton.

Receive the report titled Burlington Employment Lands Policy Recommendations and Conversion Analysis , September 2016, prepared by Dillon Consulting (Appendix B, under separate cover); and Endorse the directions, as detailed in PB-30-16, which relate to the City’s Employment Lands and Mobility Hub areas; and Refer the report titled Burlington Employment Lands Policy Recommendations and Conversion Analysis , September 2016, prepared by Dillon Consulting and the policy directions as detailed in PB-30-16 and the Council endorsed policy directions as detailed in PB-02-15 to be considered within the New Official Plan process; and Direct the Director of Planning and Building to communicate and engage with the public and stakeholders on the draft policy and the preliminarily recommended conversions at the time of the release of the draft of the New Official Plan; and Direct the Director of Planning and Building and the Executive Director of the Burlington Economic Development Corporation to initiate a post-secondary institution strategy.

Receive and file the following seven items, having been given due consideration by the Committee of the Whole.

Direct the Director of Planning and Building to close the City’s Official Plan Review process conducted under Section 26 of the Planning Act, and to open the process to prepare the City’s New Official Plan, conducted under Section 17 of the Planning Act; and Confirm that the Municipal Comprehensive Review currently underway will remain ongoing with the New Official Plan process to consider employment land conversions, and is not to consider urban boundary and/or rural settlement area expansions; and Direct the Director of Planning and Building to refer all policy research, analysis, studies, staff reports and community feedback undertaken and received as part of the Official Plan Review be considered within the New Official Plan process; and Direct the City Clerk to forward the resolution of City Council, subject to endorsement of the recommendation to prepare a New Official Plan, to the Region of Halton, the Town of Milton, the Town of Oakville, the Town of Halton Hills and the City of Hamilton.